Subotica City Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadium

Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed in such a way as to be easily used by multiple sports. While any stadium could potentially host more than one sport, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy that stresses multi-functionality over specificity...

 in Subotica

Subotica

Subotica is a city and municipality in northern Serbia, in the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina...

, Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

. It is currently used mostly for football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 matches and is the home ground of FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda

FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda

FK Spartak Zlatibor Voda is a football club from Subotica, Serbia, that plays in the Serbian SuperLiga . The club was founded in 1945 and was named after Jovan Mikić Spartak, the leader of the Partisans in Subotica, and a national hero who was killed in 1944...

 from 1945. The stadium holds 13,000 people. There is a football pitch and a registered track for athletics suitable for competitions. One part of the Stadium is covered. There are also two subsidiary football pitches.

History

The stadium was built in 1936 and named "Stadion Kralja Petra" (also known as "Sokolsko sletište"). It was part of the major architectural project by Dr. Kosta Petrović named Veliki narodni park and meant to serve the city with all necessary structures for sports and entertrainement. The initial capacity of the stadion was between 20 and 25.000 spectators. The stadion was inaugurated on June 6, 1936,, for the "Sokolski slet", an event that gathered all the "Soko" associations from the northern region of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

The Kingdom of Yugoslavia was a state stretching from the Western Balkans to Central Europe which existed during the often-tumultuous interwar era of 1918–1941...

. The further development of the sports complex was interrupted with the beginning of the Second World War and never completed afterwords.

One of the main characteristics of the City stadium in Subotica is its rectangular shape. During the years it has gone through several renovations, in 1972 , 1978, and in the 2000s.

The stadium was host at the 1986 UEFA European U-19 Football Championship.